The Grand Rapids Public Museum School’s innovative approach to interactive learning was recognized with a $10 million innovation grant from Steve Jobs’ widow.
Ted Roelofs
Ted Roelofs of Kentwood, has written extensively on healthcare as well as prison and juvenile justice reform. Roelofs spent nearly three decades at the Grand Rapids Press where he covered politics, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, rural poverty and mental illness among the homeless. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. Reach Ted at ted.roelofs@gmail.com
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Michigan apologizes for screwing residents. Then fights like hell.
Whether it’s false fraud charges, poisoned water or abused prisoners, state government too often is not here to help.
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Now what? A familiar fear when disabled children turn 26.
The murder-suicide of a respected educator and his son serves as a rallying cry to some about the stresses that begin when special education ends.
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With fewer farmhands, Michigan farmers more willing to buy worker visas
What a difference a Trump Administration makes. Undocumented farm workers are down. And nearly 6,000 agricultural visas have been approved for Michigan farmers this year – 10 times more than 2013.
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In Michigan: Who wins, who loses if GOP efforts slay Obamacare
Find out what pacemakers, tanning salons and buff young people have in common.
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Lansing Republicans drop the mantle of ‘local control’
The party of small government has unleashed a barrage of bills that forbid Michigan cities and towns from crafting their own policies relating to zoning, law enforcement, cigarette sales and the environment.
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With little help from Lansing, schools raise money from local taxpayers
Cash-strapped intermediate school districts are tapping a little-used regional tax option, with two successful campaigns in recent months. Other regions are likely to copy the strategy.
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Win some, lose some: Getting local voters to pay more for schools
Voters have said “yes” to two recent regional tax increases for schools. They sent others to resounding defeat
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This law promised medical hope for dying patients. Was it a cruel deception?
Michigan’s Right-to-Try law offers terminally ill patients quicker access to experimental drugs. More than two years later, not a single patient appears to have been helped. A Bridge Magazine investigation explains why.
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A Republican governor. A Republican legislature. Each ignoring the other.
Two commissions convened by Gov. Rick Snyder recommend dramatic upgrades to Michigan education and infrastructure. But the Republicans who lead the House and Senate want to shrink government, not expand it. Can anyone get them to consensus?